Svears och Sveriges namn från mytologiska och etymologiska perspektiv
Före kristendomen ägde asadyrkan rum i Sverige, före den Frejdyrkan och före den soldyrkan. Och Sveriges namn kom från soldyrkan (Svarog/Heimdalldyrkan) och Frejdyrkan (Suviddyrkan).
Svears namn kommer från Svarogdyrkan (sol -och ljusdyrkan):
Enligt gamla grekerna Hyperbore’er (de övernordliga, Nordborna) var sol -och ljus dyrkare. Namnet Hyperbore’a var en översättning av Norr-avigen (bortre Norden, Norge) som låg bakom Norrland.
Eftersom svenskar dyrkade sol-eldensgudar dvs, Heimdall och Ull, fick de namnet sve[d]ar.
Svensk etymologisk ordbok av Elof Hellquist (2 sveda):
Nyligen har jag sett varianter av ordet sveda/ sve[d]a (bränna) i svensk etymologisk ordbok av Elof Hellquist, som löser gåtan av både namnen Sweden och Sverige, dvs. ordet sveda, som uttalades även svea ligger i grunden av dem.
I så fall betyder de här två namnen “landet av folk som dyrkar sol-eldgudens gudar dvs, Heimdall och Ull (glans)”:
Heimdall är människornas stamfader och han lär dem många saker, till exempel om runorna. Han är en gåtfull gud som hör ihop med sol och världsträdet Yggdrasil. En tolkning av hans namn är ”Den som lyser över världen”.
Oden säger: “Ulls gunst äger alla gudars den först mig frälsar ur flamman.” (Grímnismál 42)
Nordiska ljus-eldgudens senare namn dvs. Ull (glans) son av gudinnan Siv är ett annat namn till gamla Sveda-/Svea-. Saxo nämner att Ollerus (Ull) ersatte Oden som högste gud.
I ett kväde omtalas man avlägger ed vid Ulls “ring” (symbol till solguden):
Wulthus ett ord i silverbibeln som betyder gudomlig strålglans är härlett ur Ull. Ull anses vara en kvarleva av bronsålderns ljus-eld gud. Valborgsmässa är kristeniserade festen av ljus-eld-skogsguden Wulthus (Phul, Ull):
Vul-kan (phul-kana, bål-kana): brandspray
कण m. kaNa spray
Otto Sjögren skriver i Sveriges historia, häfte 7 att “ljusets och livets modergudinna hette hos venederna Siva (Siv), vars namn betyder den ljusa eller vita.”
Han skriver i häfte 9 att “Folket kallade sig svear, vilket namn redan den gamla prosakrönikan och efter henne Laurentius Petri härledde av svedjandet (sveda).”
Götarnas asadyrkan har ersatt den gamla svearnas sol-eldsdyrkan.
Ptolemaios nämner svenskar, samer och finländare i tur och ordning under namnen firasoi (eldgud dyrkare), fauonai (fä-unnai, renskötare) och finnoi (finländare, sumpmarkfolket).
Namnet Ull har även haft liknande betydelse som samernas under eldstaden boende, Sarakka (lapp/trassel gudinnan) som var främst de havande kvinnornas eldgudinna. Både män och kvinnor offrade till henne. Samerna hade henne “alltid på tungan och i hjärtat”. Vars namn kommer av sarrat, fläka sönder senor till trådämnen. Samerna har inspirerats sin gudinnas namn av svenskarnas eldguds (Ulls) namn.
Etymologin av Asken Yggdrasill
Jag tror att den korrekta etymologin av detta namn är:
Ygg: huge
द्रु m. dru tree
शिला f. shilA (syll) top of the pillar supporting a house
tree (n.):
“perennial plant growing from the ground with a self-supporting stem or trunk from which branches grow,” Middle English tre, from Old English treo, treow “tree,” also “timber, wood, beam, log, stake;” from Proto-Germanic *trewam (source also of Old Frisian tre, Old Saxon trio, Old Norse tre, Gothic triu “tree”), from PIE *drew-o-, suffixed variant form of root *deru- “be firm, solid, steadfast,” with specialized senses “wood, tree” and derivatives referring to objects made of wood.
sill (n.):
Middle English sille, from Old English syll “beam, threshold, large timber serving as a foundation of a wall,” from Proto-Germanic *suljo (source also of Old Norse svill, Swedish syll, Danish syld “framework of a building,” Middle Low German sull, Old High German swelli, German Schwelle “sill”), perhaps from PIE root *swel- (3) “post, board” (source also of Greek selma “beam”).
Man har redan trott:
yggdrasill betyder “idegranpelare”, som härleder yggia från *igwja (som betyder “idegransträd”) och drasill från *dher- (som betyder “stöd”).
Idegranen som blev symbol till eld-skog guden Ull (Ask). Ask (aska, egentligen glödande kol) syftar på sol-eldguden Ull: Ask (Ull) och Embla (Jumala/Jubmel) som räknades förfäder till svenskar och samer/finskar.
About roten of svea (sven):
The name svea itself had the meanings light and fire in ancient times:
Shivini (Urartian, romanized: dši-i-u2-i-ni), also known as Siuini, Artinis, Ardinis, was a solar god in the mythology of the Iron Age kingdom of Urartu in the Armenian Highlands.[a] He is the third god in a triad with Khaldi and Theispas. The Assyrian god Shamash is a counterpart to Shivini. He was depicted as a man on his knees, holding up a solar disc. His wife was most likely a goddess called Tushpuea who is listed as the third goddess on the Mheri-Dur inscription.
Armen Petrosyan and other scholars argue that his name derives from a Hittite source, and is, therefore, of the same Indo-European origin as the names of Ancient Greek Zeus and Roman Jupiter.
Zeus: supreme god of the ancient Greeks and master of the others, 1706, from Greek, from PIE *dewos- “god” (source also of Latin deus “god,” Old Persian daiva- “demon, evil god,” Old Church Slavonic deivai, Sanskrit deva-), from root *dyeu- “to shine,” in derivatives “sky, heaven, god.” The god-sense is originally “shining,” but “whether as originally sun-god or as lightener” is not now clear.
Norse sun-fire god Ull (shine) and his mother Siv (light) are equivalents to these gods and They are another names for Sveda-/Svea-:
In Hittite:
siu-, siuna- (c., §۷۳): god
In Slavonic:
Svarog: *Skvara, Old Russian: Skvara (skvara), Old Church Slavonic Skvara (skvara) (fire, flame, sacrifice, smoke, vapors).
In Sanskrit:
Svar (स्वर्).—i. e. sū + an (with r for n), I. n. ([Rigveda.] i. 105, 3), The sun.
In avesta:
Khvan (svan): shining
Hvara (khvara, svara): shiner
In Persian:
Su- (sva-): light
In German:
sun (n.)
“the sun as a heavenly body or planet; daylight; the rays of the sun, sunlight,” also the sun as a god or object of worship; Middle English sonne, from Old English sunne “the sun,” from Proto-Germanic *sunno (source also of Old Norse, Old Saxon, Old High German sunna, Middle Dutch sonne, Dutch zon, German Sonne, Gothic sunno “the sun”), from PIE *s(u)wen-, an alternative form of root *sawel- (svar-) “the sun.”
Shivini, a drawing based on an image on an object (a belt) from the History Museum of Armenia
Sweden’s name according to Slavic and Nordic myths
Svantovit and Svarog are Slavic counterparts of the Norse gods Freyr and Heimdall:
From the other side Svantovit’s (Holy lord’s) name forms Svetovid, Suvid are similar to the names that Sweden has had. If so, these names have referred to the god Freyr (lord), because the names Sven- and Yngling that the Swedes have had belong to the god Freyr. In that case, the name of the Swedes in Ptolemy’s writings is, ie, Firasoi a garbled form of Fryasoi (Freyr worshippers) or it means fire worshipers (Heimdall/Ull worshipers).
About Svantevit:
Svantevit (also spelled Sventevith, Svetovid, Suvid, Svetovid, Svantovit, Swantovít, Sventovit, Zvantevith, Świętowit, Sutvid and Vid) was a four-headed god of war in West Slavic mythology. He was the father of all the other gods and probably a local variant of the sky god.
In academic literature, the theonym is traditionally divided morphologically as Sveto-vit – in the second part there is supposed to be a suffix -vit (hypothetical PS *-vitъ) meaning “lord, ruler, hero”. The suffix is supposed to derive from *vitędzь “warrior, hero” of Germanic etymology. Some researchers, however, have rejected the connection of the suffix with *vitędzь precisely because of the Germanic origin of the word; some scholars have linked the suffix to the word *vitati “to invite, to wish health”, or the hypothetical verb *viti.[d] Depending on which original meaning of the word *svętъ a given scholar takes, the theonym is translated, for example, as “Strong hero”, “Strong ruler and lord”, or “Holy victor”, “Holy lord”. Some scholars also divide the theonym as Svet-ovit, where the suffix -ovit means “one who has much (of something)”, “characterized by (something)”, and the theonym Svetovit is supposed to mean “The one with much that is holy”.
Similarities between blacksmith gods Svarog and Heimdall:
Svarog (Old Slavic: Сварогъ/Соварогъ, Russian: Сварог, Sorbian: Schwayxtix, shining sky) was in Slavic mythology the god of blacksmiths and the father of Dazjbog (the sun god) and Svarogich (the fire god). at least according to Johannes Malala’s chronicles. Some scholars also believe that he was the Allfather in East Slavic mythology and the Heavenly Fire.
Heimdall is also blacksmith god and all-father. Heimdall (from heim meaning “world” and dallr meaning “shining”) is counted as one of the Aesir in Norse mythology even though he was not considered the son of Odin.
It sounds like the Slavic bridge keeper Ilya Muromets and the Finnish blacksmith god Ilmarinen have the same origins as Heimdall and Svarog.
Svarog (“the radiant one”) on the other hand, is Norse myths Skirner (“the radiant one”) who is the servant of the god Freyr and he is originally a manifestation of Freyr himself.
The Slavic gods Svantovit and Svarog may have been identical in the beginning.
The domestic version of Sweden itself, ie, Sverige seems to be connected with Svarog.
The Swedes have been active mostly in the east and it has affected Slavic tribes and been influenced by them.
Freyr is from Vanir (the shining gods) and Vanheim is the land of the Slavs in north of the Black Sea.
Here, Vanheim is actually vagnheim (the land of fine wagons, Eu-ropa, Eu-karrona, Ukraine).
The name of the Swedes in Finnish ie, Ruotsi (rut-si) also means Freyr (god of love) worshippers:
rut (v.)
“desire copulation, be under the influence of sexual passion,” late 14c., ruteien, from rutei, probably an Anglo-French form of the noun (see rut (n.2)). Related: Rutted; rutting.
Rut is comparable with Bible Lot and his cities Sodom and Gomorrah with Sweden and Cimbria (Denmark). In the Bible, Dan (dead/terrible)- mark is equated with the Dead Sea. The myth has been influenced by the downfall of Atlantis (out land). (The flooding of lake Ancylus into Denmark)
It seems that Freyr’s love partner Gerd (hon from the field-edge) has been identical with the wise Sami goddess Giedde gaesj galggo (the field-edge woman).
The Rällinge statuette from Södermanland, Sweden, believed to depict Freyr, Viking Age.